Friday, October 8, 2010
W2 Reading
This week I learned how to make a folder in the EBSCO host and have pulled over 20 articles. I haven't had a chance to review all 20 but I am whittling them down. This is the concept map of what I reviewed this week made in the Web 2.0 tool called Mind Meister. I am not a Mind Meister expert yet as you can see, but it is a collaborative mapping tool which I am going to try and use in my classroom.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
BP7 Comment to Ginny Holm
Follow this link to Ginny's Blog (The Holm Front) to view my comments on Ginny's blog. My comment was the first comment made on 10/7/2010.
BP6 Comment to Meghan Bassett's DFILM.com Web 2.0 Commercial
Follow this link to Meghan Bassett's Blog to view my comments on Meghan's blog. My comment was the first comment made on 10/7/2010.
BP5 Web 2.0 Tool Choice, Paper Rater
BP5 Web 2.0 Tool Choice, Paper Rater
This week I found an interesting link on Web 2.0 Guru called Paper Rater. The description of the Web 2.0 Paper Rater application is as follows:
"PaperRater.com is a free resource, developed and maintained by linguistics professionals and graduate students. PaperRater.com is used by schools and universities in over 46 countries to help students improve their writing.
PaperRater.com combines the power of natural language processing (NLP), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, information retrieval (IR), computational linguistics, data mining, and advanced pattern matching (APM). We offer the most powerful writing tool available on the internet today.
Before we could offer PaperRater.com we had to overcome large challenges related to computational linguistic design and development, handling transliteration variation; ethnolinguistic identification; document classification and entity extraction; name parsing and regularization; duplicate document recognition, plagiarism detection, clustering, and prioritization; automatic entity extraction and entity resolution.
As part of the development process, we put together a team of computational linguists and subject matter experts to develop a core Natural Language Processing (NLP) engine using statistical and rules-based NLP to extract language evidence from essays and term papers and robustly translate that evidence into accurate codes. We hope to showcase some of our technology at a later date" PaperRater.com, (2010).
To Start off with PaperRater you have to cut/paste a document, select the education level for the document, and the type of document. I decided to use my research paper for Dr. Wyly's class at Full Sail University titled, Digital Natives: Digital Natives and Emerging Technologies in the Classroom as shown below which was written on the masters educational level.
The analysis is very quick. It took less than a second to get the results for my three page paper. The first bit of information that is returned is the originality score which detects whether or not the paper was plagiarized. As you can see in the screen shot, there are no signs of plagiarism in my paper.
The second part of the analysis involves language scores which center around vocabulary, spelling, and grammar. It found a two grammar suggestions for my paper and suggested I use "different from" instead of "different than" as shown below.
Next it moved onto style and provided statistics about word usage as shown below.
In the final analysis it scored the paper and gave me a score of 59 which equates to "Good Job". I could not find any additional information on the scoring system, but I am glad that I received a "Good Job" for style.
Next it scored vocabulary and gave me a score of "Excellent work" for my use of sophisticated language. but suggested that I try using their Vocabulary Builder section to further enhance my sophisticated vocabulary.
I plan to run the literature review that we will write next month through the PaperRater website to see how I score. I will also use this in my scientific research class to assist students with the rewriting of their research papers. Even though I pasted in the reference section of my paper the website did not comment or score the references section. It was simply returned in a frame at the bottom of the page without any analysis.
In my opinion PaperRater has two useful features: 1) free plagiarism detection, and 2) free double checking of the syntax and grammar in your paper. Also, the terms and services associated with PaperRater were quite long and it might be worth it to consult your legal team before submitting a Nobel prize winning paper.
This week I found an interesting link on Web 2.0 Guru called Paper Rater. The description of the Web 2.0 Paper Rater application is as follows:
"PaperRater.com is a free resource, developed and maintained by linguistics professionals and graduate students. PaperRater.com is used by schools and universities in over 46 countries to help students improve their writing.
PaperRater.com combines the power of natural language processing (NLP), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, information retrieval (IR), computational linguistics, data mining, and advanced pattern matching (APM). We offer the most powerful writing tool available on the internet today.
Before we could offer PaperRater.com we had to overcome large challenges related to computational linguistic design and development, handling transliteration variation; ethnolinguistic identification; document classification and entity extraction; name parsing and regularization; duplicate document recognition, plagiarism detection, clustering, and prioritization; automatic entity extraction and entity resolution.
As part of the development process, we put together a team of computational linguists and subject matter experts to develop a core Natural Language Processing (NLP) engine using statistical and rules-based NLP to extract language evidence from essays and term papers and robustly translate that evidence into accurate codes. We hope to showcase some of our technology at a later date" PaperRater.com, (2010).
To Start off with PaperRater you have to cut/paste a document, select the education level for the document, and the type of document. I decided to use my research paper for Dr. Wyly's class at Full Sail University titled, Digital Natives: Digital Natives and Emerging Technologies in the Classroom as shown below which was written on the masters educational level.
The analysis is very quick. It took less than a second to get the results for my three page paper. The first bit of information that is returned is the originality score which detects whether or not the paper was plagiarized. As you can see in the screen shot, there are no signs of plagiarism in my paper.
The second part of the analysis involves language scores which center around vocabulary, spelling, and grammar. It found a two grammar suggestions for my paper and suggested I use "different from" instead of "different than" as shown below.
Next it moved onto style and provided statistics about word usage as shown below.
In the final analysis it scored the paper and gave me a score of 59 which equates to "Good Job". I could not find any additional information on the scoring system, but I am glad that I received a "Good Job" for style.
Next it scored vocabulary and gave me a score of "Excellent work" for my use of sophisticated language. but suggested that I try using their Vocabulary Builder section to further enhance my sophisticated vocabulary.
I plan to run the literature review that we will write next month through the PaperRater website to see how I score. I will also use this in my scientific research class to assist students with the rewriting of their research papers. Even though I pasted in the reference section of my paper the website did not comment or score the references section. It was simply returned in a frame at the bottom of the page without any analysis.
In my opinion PaperRater has two useful features: 1) free plagiarism detection, and 2) free double checking of the syntax and grammar in your paper. Also, the terms and services associated with PaperRater were quite long and it might be worth it to consult your legal team before submitting a Nobel prize winning paper.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
BP4 Web 2.0 Tool Selection (Google Docs)
Google Docs is by far my favorite Web 2.0 tool. It is solid, very stable, and truly collaborative. Imagine having 10 people collaboratively work on a single PowerPoint presentation... you can with Google docs. Imagine a class of 30 students all inputting data into a spreadsheet and performing analysis simultaneously ...you can with Google Docs. Imagine creating an online form to gather information or take a survey then emailing it to thousands of people ... you can with Google docs.
I coach/mentor a robotics team and on day one of the season, I don't have kids sign in and give me their information on a piece of paper. I simply put out a laptops with a Google Doc opened in the webbrowser. This saves double entry (copying paper to computer) plus this document can be immediately shared and accessed with a few clicks of the mouse.
Google Docs is not as robust as Microsoft Office and would not be suitable for creating a newsletter or application that requires heavy formatting and can be considered a Microsoft Office lite. Additionally, Google Docs is not a good choice for people that need to keep their information top secret or secure. The good news with Google Docs is that your information is available anywhere on the Internet and, the bad news is your information is available to hackers anywhere on the Internet as well. Google has been hacked and has servers spread across the Globe so there is no guarantee that your physical data even resides in the USA.
Google Docs is very easy to transition to for the average user and there are plenty of tutorial videos on all aspects of Google Docs available on YouTube. Here are some great examples:
Great Overview Videos of Google Docs
Why Google Docs for Educators?
Google Docs Spreadsheet Tutorial
I coach/mentor a robotics team and on day one of the season, I don't have kids sign in and give me their information on a piece of paper. I simply put out a laptops with a Google Doc opened in the webbrowser. This saves double entry (copying paper to computer) plus this document can be immediately shared and accessed with a few clicks of the mouse.
Google Docs is not as robust as Microsoft Office and would not be suitable for creating a newsletter or application that requires heavy formatting and can be considered a Microsoft Office lite. Additionally, Google Docs is not a good choice for people that need to keep their information top secret or secure. The good news with Google Docs is that your information is available anywhere on the Internet and, the bad news is your information is available to hackers anywhere on the Internet as well. Google has been hacked and has servers spread across the Globe so there is no guarantee that your physical data even resides in the USA.
Google Docs is very easy to transition to for the average user and there are plenty of tutorial videos on all aspects of Google Docs available on YouTube. Here are some great examples:
Great Overview Videos of Google Docs
Why Google Docs for Educators?
Google Docs Spreadsheet Tutorial
W1 Reading
For my ARP, I am interested in the best practices for blended and online learning. My plan is to look at specific areas in online content and course structure. These articles represent the high level view and each week I plan to get more specific articles with smaller and smaller scopes. Click Image to SUPERSIZE.
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